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His Majesty's High Court of Chivalry is a civil law (as opposed to common law) court in English and Welsh law with jurisdiction over matters of heraldry. The court has been in existence since the fourteenth century; however, it rarely sits. [ 1 ]
Scrope v Grosvenor (1389) was an early lawsuit relating to the law of arms.One of the earliest heraldic cases brought in England, the case resulted from two different knights in King Richard II's service, Richard Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton, and Sir Robert Grosvenor, discovering they were using the same undifferenced coat of arms, blazoned Azure, a bend Or.
George Drewry Squibb (1 December 1906 – 3 January 1994) was an English lawyer, herald and antiquary who is most noted for his participation in the celebrated 1954 case of Manchester Corporation v Manchester Palace of Varieties Ltd [1955] [1] in the High Court of Chivalry, the first (and to date only) case heard by that court for over two hundred years.
The case was decided against Gray in 1978. The court's Judge Ruttle cited a judgment by Lord Denning in an appeal case in which Denning stated that it was wrong for the act to obliterate all differences between men and women or to remove chivalry shown by men to women. By 1980 El Vino had won three legal challenges brought against it under the ...
The Court of Chivalry also has jurisdiction over disputes regarding heraldry and rights to use coats of arms. The Court of Chivalry is not a court of record, and as such has no power to enforce its decisions by fine or imprisonment; as such it became relatively disused. It is not obsolete, however, and cases have been brought before the Court ...
John Watson (fl. 1646–1660) was an English lawyer, Notary Public and the first Commonwealth Register at the Court of Chivalry [1] and officer of arms at the College of Arms [2] in London. He served as commissary and treasurer to Major Legge and Colonel Washington in the Royalist Army during the English Civil War. [3]
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 485 U.S. 439 (1988), was a United States Supreme Court landmark [2] case in which the Court ruled on the applicability of the Free Exercise Clause to the practice of religion on Native American sacred lands, specifically in the Chimney Rock area of the Six Rivers National Forest in California. [2]
In this case, the contract was to share the spoils of armed robbery, which the court refused to uphold. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There are no contemporaneous reports of the case surviving, and most references to it relate to a summary of the case found in the 1893 Law Quarterly Review , which in turn relies upon a text from 1802, an English translation of a ...